View from our hotel above the Copper River. Part of the Wrangell-St. Elias National Park is visible.

This is the Copper River Princess Wilderness Lodge, host of the lovely view in the previous picture

Mt. Drum and Mt. Wrangell, on a cloudy day (Mt. Sanford is behind the clouds)

The hotel thoughtfully provided a guide for accurate mountain-naming

The road to Valdez

The approach to Worthington Glacier

Worthington Glacier melts into a catchbasin

Rocks carried by the glacier are veined with all kinds of minerals

We drove through Thompson Pass on a cloudy day.

Bridal Veil Falls

Horsetail Falls

The road behind us

Valdez is a town beside itself, literally. It was moved from this location after the devastating earthquake of 1964 to a site just 4 miles south

The remains of old Valdez

Valdez museum remembers its past. A turn of the century firetruck

The Alaska Pipeline ends in Valdez.

The rare Alaska woolly salmon.

A model of a salmon trap

A full-size salmon trap